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The most comprehensive analysis of the college football bowl bubble is back! For the eighth-straight year, I will be publishing weekly November columns analyzing which teams will get bowl bids and which will not. Below, I have written a report for every team that has yet to be declared either bowl eligible or ineligible. Each week this list will be updated and new odds will be provided for each team. Please note that these odds only represent the chances that a particular team will get enough wins to be eligible to receive a bowl bid. They do not represent the odds a team has for actually receiving a bid. This discrepancy likely won’t affect the bowl chances of most major conference teams, but as we saw last year with Nebraska, Minnesota, and San Jose States, sometimes a squad can fall short of bowl eligibility and still garner a bowl bid at 5-7 if all spots aren’t filled. The teams are ordered in descending order of likelihood that they will become bowl eligible. As of now, there are 58 teams on the list with 25 predicted to attain bowl eligibility and 33 predicted to fall short. As of now, I’m projecting there to be 74 bowl eligible teams for 2016, so expect another group of 5-7 teams to garner bowl berths in 2016 (see full stats at the bottom of this entry). Keep in mind that there are a total of 80 bowl slots to be filled. This list is updated through all games played on November 10th.